Details
Title: アンタッチャブル
Title (English): Untouchable
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Mystery, comedy
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-16 start
Air time: Friday 21:00
Theme song: Orion by GIRL NEXT DOOR

Synopsis
Narumi Ryoko is a reporter who gets dismissed from a top-notch magazine and winds up at a third-rate weekly. Clumsy yet persistent, she notices details that other reporters overlook, leading her to the "untouchable" sides of criminal cases and, ultimately, to the truth. --Tokyograph

Cast
Nakama Yukie as Narumi Ryoko
Kaname Jun as Toyama Shiro
Sato Tomohito as Takafuji Shinichi
Ashina Sei as Makise Misuzu
Urano Kazumi (浦野一美) as Nishio Rika
Tsujitani Yoshimasa (辻谷嘉真) as Katayama Tamotsu
Tanaka Yoji as Nakahara Makoto
Sakai Toshiya as Jonouchi Hitoshi
Ozawa Yukiyoshi as Narumi Koji
Tanaka Tetsushi as Kashimura Hideaki
Terajima Susumu as Nagakura Eiichi
Asano Yuko as Arisugawa Sumire (ep1)

Production Credits
Screenwriter: Hashimoto Hiroshi
Chief producer: Kuwata Kiyoshi
Producers: Yokochi Ikuhide (横地郁英), Yasui Kazunari (安井一成), Ota Masaharu (太田雅晴)
Directors: Shimoyama Ten, Karaki Akihiro (唐木希浩)
Music: Izutsu Akio (井筒昭雄)

Official Site
http://untouchable.asahi.co.jp/

This one looks like one to watch... I'd like to see Yukie-chan back to form.

I am eagerly anticipating this one as well...

-Dave

After seeing all the other new dramas that Takoyama has posted, this is definitely the one to watch.

(Koshonin doesn't count: it's a sequel... But it's also a must watch. )

I hope this one turns out good as well.

Has anyone seen this yet? Any early reviews?

-Dave

Maybe people are waiting for the subs.

A few reviews over at D-Addicts: http://d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_78415.htm

bmwracer wrote:

Maybe people are waiting for the subs. A few reviews over at D-Addicts: http://d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_78415.htm

I'm one of those people waiting

Saw a couple positive reviews!

-Dave

I watched the 1st episode and thought it was ok. I was expecting 20 high school ikemen to bust out and yell "Yankumi!" Fortunately, that didn't happen. This one does look promising.

Takoyama wrote:

Fortunately, that didn't happen.

Glad to hear that... The drama sounds promising already.

The synopsis seems reminiscient of a 1998 dorama, Tabloid, starring Tokiwa Takako as a highbrow journalist who gets demoted to a lowbrow tabloid. Good supporting cast including Sato Koichi, Tomosaka Rie, and Sanada Hiroyuki. It was a pretty serious drama with Tokiwa giving a fine performance and Sanada in a creepy role as a suspect who may or may not be a murderer.

shin2 wrote:

Sanada in a creepy role as a suspect who may or may not be a murderer.

Really?

That's going against type for him.... Sounds interesting, but probably unavailable.

bmwracer wrote:

Really? That's going against type for him.... Sounds interesting, but probably unavailable.

it really IS very interesting. you should watch it if can get hold of it. as huge Sanada fan, i love this one alot.
sorry for being off topic
but yes, i am also watching Untouchable. FFward ep1 and it seemed really good. i just did not want to watch it without subs. this one needs your 100% attention. but i did notice lack of Jun Kaname appearance in ep1. or maybe i FFwrd too fast?
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issy wrote:

as huge Sanada fan, i love this one alot.

Not surprised.

But he is one of the best actors around.... Been a fan of his since his days working in Chiba Shinichi's JAC (Japan Action Club).

bmwracer wrote:

Maybe people are waiting for the subs. A few reviews over at D-Addicts: http://d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_78415.htm

I'd love to watch it in HD since I just got a WD player that can play from USB drives. The only eps I can find with subs are SD .divx with hard coded subs. Bummer. I hate to watch SD blown up since I'm just getting used to being able to watch HD content.

The rationale and methodology of the subs seems to change every week. I'm lost.


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^ So no softsubs?

Know of anyone planning on subbing it?

bmwracer wrote:

^ So no softsubs? Know of anyone planning on subbing it?

The impression I'm getting is that they are using divx with xsubs precisely because they can't be demuxed. You have to watch on a PC using Divx Player. No other app I know of will play the embedded subs in a .divx file. Maybe if you have a blu-ray player that does .divx. My stand-alone player won't play .divx larger than 720x576 resolution. My WD player will, but it won't show the xsubs.

Plus there seems to be no way to know for sure what you are downloading. It's all kind of a mess.
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If you can play .mp4 you can get hard-subbed HD episodes. Go to Sars Fansub site and check into how to get episodes from IRC.

There's a list of episodes in both SD and HD format with strings to paste into the IRC client once you are connected to the Sars server.


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D-Addicts has the Japanese subs... Maybe someone could translate...?

bmwracer wrote:

D-Addicts has the Japanese subs... Maybe someone could translate...?

Episodes 1-5 have English subs. They are either hard subbed or embedded, that's all. The IRC downloads are hard subbed. The best quality videos from torrent are using embedded .divx subs, which makes it a pain to watch on HDTV unless you have PC output to your HDTV. I'm watching the IRC HD ones now. Not as high a quality as the torrent releases but still noticeably better than the SD ones.
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